Limitations of Standard Functionalities

In the previous sections, you learned how to perform data importing and exporting through standard functionalities. As you learned, these functionalities are easy to configure and work well for simple scenarios.

In this section, you will learn what the main limitations of these standard functionalities are, and you will learn how to implement a custom PHP operator to be used in CSV importing. Let's start by presenting the limitations of the previously seen export functionality.

Limitations of Data Export

In the Exporting data section, you learned how to configure object grids to export object data. When using these configurations, you may encounter the following limitations:

• Showing complex field values: The grid configuration is quite similar for simple textual and numeric fields, but it could be difficult to extract information for structured fields, such as for Fieldcollections attributes. The Fieldcollections can present...